Shock Your Body into Weight Loss During Phase One of the South Beach Diet Plan?

The popular South Beach Diet advocates eliminating simple carbohydrates and "bad" fats from the diet, and replacing them with complex carbohydrates and "good" fats. Phase one of the diet serves to shock the body into weight loss by completely eliminating all sugar, processed carbohydrates and other high-glycemic index foods. The South Beach Diet phase one lasts two weeks and is the most strict of the three phases. Phase two continues for as long as you wish to lose weight, and phase three is the maintenance phase which you should follow for life after you have reached your weight loss goals.